Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the Federal Antimonopoly Service took legal action against Russian Railways Public Company and Sverdlovsk Region Railways as its member, claiming the latter violated the federal bill on the protection of competition, the spokesperson for the Service reports.

The inquiry began after a number of enterprises, including V.V. Vorovskiy Machine-Building Plant, Grani Holding Company, Russian Transport Alliance, Boomerang Trading Company, Fluor, Ural-Siberian Forwarder, Teploenergoservice-EC, Teploenergoservice, Uraltransexpeditsiya, Reilcontinent, Plodovo-Ovoschnaya Baza 4, Kompovit, Trais-Ek, and Trais placed their complaints with the Service.

The companies claimed Russian Railways Public Company refused to render its transportation services to them at Sverdlovsk-Tovarniy station for no good reason.

Sverdlovsk Region’s division of the Federal Antimonopoly Service saw this as a violation of Article 10 (part 1) of the federal bill on the protection of competition.